Cloud FinOps SME

Job Title

Cloud FinOps SME

Location

Dallas, TX

Duration

6 months

Salary Range

$40.00 - $42.00/Hour on W2 (Without Benefits).

Applicants must be willing to work on W2.

Role Summary

• Senior Cloud FinOps SME responsible for driving cloud financial management, cost optimization, governance, forecasting, allocation, and executive reporting across Azure-led multi-cloud environments.
• The role requires deep Microsoft Azure expertise, working knowledge of GCP, and hands-on experience with Apptio Cloudability.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Azure and GCP cloud cost analysis, optimization, budgeting, forecasting, variance management, and financial governance.
• Manage Azure Reservations, Savings Plans, Azure Hybrid Benefit, budgets, cost analysis, exports, and Azure Advisor recommendations.
• Support GCP billing analysis, budgets, committed use discounts, labels, resource utilization, and optimization.
• Develop showback/chargeback models, tagging standards, allocation rules, unit-cost metrics, dashboards, and executive reports.
• Identify idle, orphaned, oversized, and underutilized resources; quantify savings and track remediation through realization.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, operations, finance, procurement, and business teams to drive cost accountability.
• Provide cost models, TCO, ROI, and scenario analysis for cloud migration, modernization, and architecture decisions.

Required Skills

• 10+ years of IT experience, including 7+ years in Microsoft Azure and 7+ years in Cloud FinOps, cloud economics, or cloud financial management.
• Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure Cost Management and Billing, Cost Analysis, budgets, exports, Reservations, Savings Plans, Azure Hybrid Benefit, and Azure Advisor.
• Hands-on expertise with Apptio Cloudability, including cost allocation, reporting, optimization insights, budgeting/forecasting, dashboards, and business-unit views.
• Good working knowledge of GCP Cloud Billing, budgets, committed use discounts, labels, reporting, and resource optimization.
• Strong knowledge of the FinOps Framework, cloud cost allocation, showback/chargeback, unit economics, rate optimization, governance, and anomaly management.
• Advanced analytical and reporting skills using Power BI, Excel, SQL, APIs, or equivalent tools.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills, with the ability to convert technical and financial data into actionable recommendations.

Preferred Qualifications

• FinOps Certified Practitioner/Professional or equivalent certification.
• Microsoft Azure Administrator or Azure Solutions Architect certification; GCP certification is an advantage.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale cloud migration, modernization, or multi-cloud governance programs.